[tinysofa-devel] Re[4]: [tinysofa-discuss] Problem with devlabel on a extra /var partition

[Dominik Schips]

On 13.01.2005 Matt Bottrell wrote:

No problem. Now the fix works fine. Thank you.

> Oops... sorry...

> I forgot the most important step in the 'kludge'.

> 2.5 Unmount /var

> Give that a go, it should work.  :)


> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:18:26 +0100, Dominik Schips <mail-lists at s235.de> wrote:
>> On 13.01.2005 Matt Bottrell wrote:
>> 
>> > /var traditionally is on a seperate partition due to the 'VARiable
>> > logs/reports' that are generated in there.  If /var isn't a seperate
>> > partition it can be the cause of filling the root (/) partition.
>> > (This is not a GoodThing(tm)).
>> 
>> That is the reason why I want to have it on a extra partition.
>> 
>> 
>> > A simple 'kludge' fix to problem is to do the following:
>> 
>> > 1. Copy the /var/lib/devlabel information to say /root/devlabel/
>> > 2. Reboot in single user mode.
>> > 3. mkdir -p /var/lib/devlabel
>> > 4. Move the information from /root/devlabel/ to /var/lib/devlabel
>> 
>> > As such this ensure the information is there at boot time (thus no errors).
>> > The 'real' /var partition will  mount over the top of it later on in
>> > the boot process.
>> 
>> Thank you for your 'kludge' fix, but it doesn't work (for me).
>> 
>> The directory /var/lib/devlabel/ and the two files
>> /var/lib/devlabel/ignore_list and /var/lib/devlabel/proc_partitions
>> are on the /var partition.
>> 
>> But the proc_partitions and the ignore_list file are empty.
>> On a system (for testing) with only /boot, SWAP and / the
>> proc_partitions file has some entries about the partitions.
>> 
>> 
>> > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:48:18 +0100, Dominik Schips <mail-lists at s235.de> wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> I set up a new Tinysofa 2.0 server.
>> >> For this I want to have the following partitions each on a different
>> >> partition:
>> >>
>> >> /boot
>> >> SWAP
>> >> /var
>> >> /usr
>> >> /
>> >> /tmp
>> >> /home
>> >> /srv
>> >>
>> >> After the installation I saw some error messages on the screen:
>> >>
>> >> /sbin/devlabel: line 895: /var/lib/devlabel/ignore_list: No such file
>> >> or directory
>> >> /sbin/devlabel: line 896: /var/lib/devlabel/proc_partitions: No such file
>> >> or directory
>> >> grep: /var/lib/devlabel/ignore_list: No such file or directory
>> >> /sbin/devlabel: line 920: [: -eq: unary operator expected
>> >> ....
>> >>
>> >> and so on.
>> >> After some searching on the net I found that this is a problem, when
>> >> the /var "directory" is on a extra partition. It causes a problem at
>> >> boot time, because it isn't mounted when the check for de ignore_list
>> >> file is made.
>> >> When /var is on the / partition, then there is no problem with
>> >> devlabel.
>> >>
>> >> Did someone else had this problem or is my partitioning not the
>> >> best?
>> >> Should this error be fixed in the devlabel package?
>> >>
>> >> Information:
>> >>
>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-July/msg00600.html
>> >>
>> >> Old question (no answer) with this problem on the Tinysofa list:
>> >>
>> http://lists.tinysofa.org/pipermail/tinysofa-discuss/2004-October/000344.html
>> >>
>> >> Maybe this is a solution:
>> >> http://www.lerhaupt.com/foo/archives/cat_linux.html
>> >>
>> >> The ignore_list is now kept in /etc/sysconfig/devlabel.d and not
>> >> /var/lib/devlabel. Though /var/lib is generically a more appropriate
>> >> place for application state information to live, it was necessary
>> >> to have these files located on the root partition. This is to make
>> >> sure that these files are available during boot after the root
>> >> partition has been mounted but before any other partition has
>> >> been mounted (such as /var).
>> 
>> ----
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>>  Dominik Schips
>> 
>>





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Best regards,

 Dominik Schips